Selected Museum Collections

Selected Museum Collections

Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
Columbia University, New York, NY
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Didrichsen Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
The Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg, PA
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Mint Museums, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, BA
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
São Paulo Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Tucson, Tucson, AZ
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1938		ACA Gallery, New York, NY
1943		Seymour Lipton: Sculpture, Galerie St. Etienne, Inc., New York, NY Warsaw, Puma Gallery, New York, NY
1948		Seymour Lipton, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY; 1950, 52, 54, 58, 61
1951		American University, Washington, DC
1955		Seymour Lipton, New Paltz College, New Paltz, NY
1956		Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil Musee Rodin, Paris, France
1958		Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1961		Rensselaer Museum, Troy, NY
1962		Seymour Lipton Drawings/Small Sculpture, Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC Seymour Lipton, Argus Gallery, Madison, NJ
1964		Seymour Lipton, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1965		Seymour Lipton, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, NY
1969		Seymour Lipton: Decade of Recent Work, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1971		Seymour Lipton: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Museum of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1972		Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1973		Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY Seymour Lipton: Recent Sculpture 1964-73, Herbert E. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1974		Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich, Switzerland Seymour Lipton, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1976		Seymour Lipton: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1978		Seymour Lipton: Aspects of Sculpture, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1979		Seymour Lipton Retrospective: Drawings and Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1982		Seymour Lipton Sculpture, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
1983		Hodges/Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1984		Seymour Lipton: Sculpture, Hillwood Art Gallery, Greenvale, NY; Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; University Art Gallery, Macomb, IL; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX; University Art Collections, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MI; Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1986		Seymour Lipton Drawings, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY
1988		Seymour Lipton: A Retrospective, Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1991		Seymour Lipton: Major Late Sculpture, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
1993		Seymour Lipton: The First Decade, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
1995		Seymour Lipton: Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
1999		Seymour Lipton: Sculptures, Maquettes and Drawings, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, NY
2000		An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Elvehjem Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Iowa City, IA; Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2002		Seymour Lipton Sculpture: Post-War America in Three Dimensions, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenburg College, Allentown, PA
2005		Seymour Lipton: Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2008		Seymour Lipton: Metal, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2009		The Guardian and the Avant-Garde: Seymour Lipton's Sentinel II in Context, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

Group Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

1934		Working Class Sculpture, John Reed Club, New York, NY
1940		Art in a Democracy, American Artists Congress, New York, NY
1941		In the Realm of Art, Sculptor’s Guild, New York, NY
1943		American Sculpture of Our Time, Buchholz Gallery, New York, NY We Challenge War Art, Puma Gallery, New York, NY Museum Selection, American-British Center Art Show, New York, NY
1945		Recent Work by American Sculptors, Buchholz Gallery, New York, NY Artists’ League Show, New York, NY New American Painting and Sculpture, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
1946		The Horse in Painting and Sculpture, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
1947		New Sculpture, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY Annual Show of Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Modern House Comes to Life, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
1949		American Artists for Israel, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1950		Ten Years, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1951		Six Sculptors, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Sculpture Annual Exhibit, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1952		Exhibition: Welded Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1955		El Arte Moderno en los Estados Unidos, Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The University of Illinois, Urbana, IL A Selection of Contemporary American Sculpture, The University of Minnesota Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN The New Decade―35 American Painters and Sculptors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, CA; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO; City Art Museum of St. Louis, MO
1956		12 Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1957		62nd American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1958		La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in 20th Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Philips Gallery; Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1959		Eighteen Living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961		Exhibition of Art by the Faculty and Visiting Artists of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1963		Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The University of Illinois, Urbana, IL Sculpture in the Open Air, Battersea Park, London, England
1964		American Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Ceramics by Twelve Artists, American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY
1965		Critics’ Choice―Art Since World War II, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI Amerikanische Plastik USA 20. Jahrhundert, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany Art in Science, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY
1966		Art of the United States: 1670-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1968		Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1975		American Art Since 1945 from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978		Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
1979		Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913–1939, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
1984		The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1985		1935: The Year and the Arts, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY Sculptural Expressions: Seven Artists in Metal and Drawing 1947–1960, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
1986		Jung and Abstract Expressionism: The Collective Image Among Individual Voices, Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
1987		Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Accent on Sculpture: Small-scale works from the Permanent Collection, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1990		The Coming of Age in American Sculpture: The First Decades of the Sculptors Guild: 1930s-1950s, Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University. Hempstead, NY
1994		Between Transcendence and Brutality: American Sculptural Drawings from the 1940s and 1950s, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1995		The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998		Twentieth Century American Drawings, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; Sunrise Museums, Charleston, WV; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
1999		Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn: Sculptors’ Works in the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2000		Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant-Garde, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2001		Meaning, Medium, and Method: American Sculpture 1940-1960, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art at the New York State Museum, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
2003		American Sculpture from the FIA’s Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
2004		Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War, Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL Contemporary American Sculpture: Collection of the FIA, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, MI From Abstraction to Minimalism, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Peter Clark: Snow Falling on Snow, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY
2005		Ceramics by Twelve Artists: A Homage to David Gill, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY Surrealism USA, National Academy of Design, New York, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Mid-Century USA: American Art & Design, 1940-1960, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, OK
2007		Body Beware: 18 American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2008		Seymour Lipton: METAL, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, PA; University of Iowa Museum of At, Iowa City, IA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Rockefeller at 100, New York State Museum, Albany, NY Repartir à Zéro, 1945-1949 (Starting from Scratch), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
2008-2012		Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2009		Wired, Welded, Cast & Carved: American Abstract Sculpture, 1952-1962, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Modern American Watercolors and Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1910-1960, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Long Island Moderns: Artists on the North Shore from Edward Steichen to Cindy Sherman, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence (Part Two: Sculpture), Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

Awards

Awards

1957		Acquisition Prize, Saõ Paulo, Brazil Logan Award, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, for Cloak
1960		Purchase Award, New School for Social Research, New York City, for Viking Architectural League Award, for Hero Guggenheim Award
1961		Award from Perini, San Francisco, for Chinese Bird Ford Foundation Award Architectural League Award, for Argonaut I Architectural League Award, for Argonaut II
1968		First Prize, George D. Widener Gold Medal, “The 163rd Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA